Getting NixOS unstable

The latest stable release series is
unstable and the latest release in that
series is . Below are links to
CD/DVD images and VirtualBox appliances containing the latest
release in this series. Next Step: Manual

Installation CDs/DVDs

You can install NixOS on physical hardware by burning one of the CD
images onto a blank CD/DVD disk, or by
copying it onto a USB stick. For installation
instructions, please see the manual.

Please note that NixOS at the moment lacks a nice, user-friendly
graphical installer. Therefore this form of installation may not be
suitable for novice Linux users.

The graphical installation CD contains the NixOS
installer as well as X11, KDE 4 and several applications. It’s a
live CD, so it allows you to get an impression of NixOS (and
the Nix package manager) before installing it.

VirtualBox appliances

This is a demo appliance for VirtualBox (in OVA format) that has
X11 and KDE enabled, as well as the VirtualBox guest additions. To
use it, download the OVA file, open VirtualBox, run “File → Import
Appliance” from the menu, select the OVA file, and click “Import”.
You can then start the virtual machine. When the KDE login screen
appears, you can log in as user demo,
password demo. To obtain a root shell, run
sudo -i in the KDE terminal (konsole).

Amazon EC2 AMIs

If you are an EC2 user, you can fire up a NixOS instance instantly
by using one of the AMIs listed below.

Region

Root storage

Virtualisation

AMI

You can create an instance using the AWS Management Console by
clicking one of the Launch buttons. You can also create an instance
from the command line. For example, to create an instance in region
eu-west-1 using the EC2 API tools, just
run:

$ ec2-run-instances --region eu-west-1 -k my-key-pair

Microsoft Azure BLOBs

If you are an Azure user, you can manually create a NixOS instance
by using one of the bootstrap BLOBs listed below.